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The Pillar Podcast The Pillar Podcast
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Great Catholic Conversation, each week.
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Ep. 110: Law Man for the Lord
Bishop Kevin Rhoades publishes a column criticizing the University of Notre Dame’s invitation for an abortion doula to speak at the school. JD and Ed ask if the column is enough— and how Bishop Rhoades could transition from criticism to governance.
Then, Ed is in shock over Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra's recent day in court.
JD has some gifts for Ed.
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Ep. 109: Open the eyes of Ed’s heart
Ed dreams of land and JD defends Captain Von Trapp. Then, Ed gives an update on Libero Milone lawsuit against the Holy See and the case's potentially catastrophic implications. JD gives Ed an informal lesson on revivals and the Catholic Charismatic Renewal.
Links:
The Barbarian Conversion: From Paganism to Christianity by Richard Fletcher - https://www.amazon.com/Barbarian-Conversion-Paganism-Christianity/dp/0520218590
Black Hearts: One Platoon's Descent into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death - https://www.amazon.com/Black-Hearts-Platoons-Descent-Triangle/dp/0307450767
Matt Maher at World Youth Day in Rio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZa6spYqHsA
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This episode of The Pillar Podcast is sponsored by Decided Excellence Catholic Media, a print media company that specializes in Community and Parish magazines. Parishes nationwide have partnered with Decided Excellence Catholic Media to publish their own parish magazine.
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Ep. 108: Our St. Patrick’s Day episode
Ed shares the story of his possibly illicit baptism. Then, JD and Ed go to the law to explain St. Patrick’s Day dispensations.
JD plays a round of St. Patrick’s Day trivia.
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Ep. 107: Francis Fukuyama is an idiot
Pope Francis issues a rescript to his motu proprio about ecclesiastical goods. Then, JD and Ed talk about Cardinal McElroy’s latest essay.
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Bonus: Bishop Paprocki talks 'heretical’ cardinals
In this bonus episode, JD and Ed talk with Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois about his essay ‘Imagining a Heretical Cardinal.’
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Ep. 106: There’s knavery afoot
Pope Francis released this week a motu proprio about ecclesiastical goods— and Ed has questions. Then, JD and Ed have a big-picture discussion about a new lawsuit against the Diocese of San Diego.
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This episode of The Pillar Podcast is sponsored by Decided Excellence Catholic Media, a print media company that specializes in Community and Parish magazines. Parishes nationwide have partnered with Decided Excellence Catholic Media to publish their own parish magazine. Visit https://decidedexcellence.com/parish/ to learn more.
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Customer Reviews
Informal yet informed and informative
Initially I found the banter annoying, but eventually I realized that the relationship between the interlocutors enables them to keep each other on the logical straight-and-narrow without distracting clashes. And they’re so genuine—both in the sense that they really know their canon law and current events in the Church, and in the sense that they are relatable. To my mind, a high point was their sputtering incomprehension over Bishop McElroy’s incomprehensible contention that the Church regards contraception but not child abandonment as objectively disordered. I understand what they’re thinking, know how they feel, and shall now subscribe to The Pillar.
Dreck
First, they alienate every Christian with a conscience by supporting every jackboot-wearing regressive policy the church occasionally spouts regarding “traditional marriage”, the right to choose, etc. THEN they alienate every Christian with a backbone by reporting on conservative priests who (“allegedly”? Did I do that right?) engage in sexual grooming behavior!
But they’ve finally gone too far. That closet limey Ed Condon took a number of shots at my beloved Philadelphia Eagles in a recent newsletter, and at football in general. Can someone please tell that tea-sucking, powdered-wig-wearing Benedict Arnold that we have no need for him in the land of the free and the home of the brave? He won’t know this because he’s a marginal American, but in Philly we threw snowballs at Santa for no other reason than we’re violent and tribalistic. Imagine what we’d do to him…
Just kidding—love the Pillar and the pod. It really seems like you’re the only spot where you can get this kind of deep, but not polemicist, analysis. Keep it up! That being said, it’s a tough life when the likes of JD have the represent the alpha dog USA mentality, but here we are. Praying for you both and the Pillar in general!
Mental acrobatics to justify bigotry
Mental acrobatics to justify medieval bigotry. Don't get distracted by the civilized veneer.